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His Own Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the…
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a…
- Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
- The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
- The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake;
- In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet…
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a manso concentrates his attentionon a landscape, a poem, a geometrical…
More His Own Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr